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About this Event

Mark Mangan has been playing stringed instruments for about 20 years and is now a full time ukulele teacher.

He has been playing with Ukulele Tuesday for about 6 years, and has helped shape and grow it from being 3 people around a table, to one of the loudest, wildest and largest weekly ukulele sessions on the map.

Mark is passionate about is demystifying ukulele chords by teaching people chord theory. His workshop will start with the musical alphabet and build up from there, so it will suit all ability levels.

So, why chord theory?

In this workshop, he will demystify the fundamentals of what chords are, and how they work.

In his own words…

“Looking back, this is the subject that I most wish somebody had explained to me much earlier in my musical journey. Realising that I could learn a couple of theory concepts and then the name of the chord would tell me everything I need to know in order to play it was an absolute game-changer for my playing and can be for yours too.

In the hour long workshop, I probably won’t be able to bring you all of the way to playing every chord on command, but that is the direction in which your learning will go if you apply the information that I will be sharing with you. It’s a medium term learning project with an amazing payoff at the end.

I aim to get everyone playing any major and minor chord in the musical alphabet (including #s and ♭s) by understanding what major and minor chords actually are.

If we get time, the next step would be any sus2 and sus4 chords followed by the Maj7, 7, and 6 chords and so on.

Even if we don’t get this far in the workshop itself, I will be distributing invites to access the slideshow file which breaks all of this down in detail. It covers every concept in an easy to understand, piece by piece manner. This series of concepts build upon each other, to lay the foundations for understanding what every part of a chord name means, and how to apply that to the ukulele. You stop having to remember chords, and start “building” them instead.

The idea is that once you reach the end of the slideshow, you should be able to play pretty much any chord on command, simply by hearing or reading its name. That can be your new superpower.”